Back in May, the Manchester icon said he wasn’t “arsed” about the ‘Shape Of You’ singer, but now he’s given him a more positive appraisal.

“He is talented. I don’t know much about him but he is talented,” Gallagher said during an interview on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show.

Gallagher also revealed why he doesn’t think of himself as a similar kind of artist to Sheeran. “I don’t see myself as a writer, I see myself as a singer first,” Gallagher explained. “I’m still learning, when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror I just see a rock n roll singer with a dash of punk, and loads of charm. I don’t see myself as an Ed Sheeran or a Bob Dylan.”